Category: Europe-China Relations

NATO Allies: West Needs to Reassert Its Values to Counter Sino–Russia Alliance

June 30, 2022
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Leaders from the UK and Australia have told the NATO summit that the West needs to assert its values globally, or they will risk seeing China and Russia continue to test the rules-based international order. This comes as NATO issued a declaration saying it will include China in its new strategic concept after identifying the…

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China Extends Anti-Dumping Tariffs on EU, UK Steel Fasteners Imports

June 29, 2022
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BEIJING—China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday it would extend anti-dumping tariffs on certain steel fasteners imported from the European Union and United Kingdom for five years. The anti-dumping tariffs will be imposed from June 29, the ministry said in a statement. By Emily Chow in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing Newsroom …

CCP Faces Backlash for Diplomat’s False Claim About a Brussels Protest

June 27, 2022
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A Chinese diplomat recently posted a false statement about a protest that recently occurred in Brussels, causing backlash from the  international community. This happened while the regime’s special envoy was visiting European countries to improve China-EU relations. On June 20, about 70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels demanding their government take action against the sharply rising…

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Chinese Diplomat Says China Is ‘Ready’ to Supply Aircraft Parts to Russia

June 26, 2022
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A Chinese diplomat reportedly said that China is prepared to supply Russia with aircraft parts through “certain channels” that can bypass U.S. and European sanctions. “We are ready to supply components to Russia; we are organizing such cooperation,” Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui told Russian news agency TASS. “[Airlines] are currently addressing [it], they have…

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Foreign Minister Conjures Spectre of Cold War: Russia Returning ‘East’

June 23, 2022
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has invoked the spectre of the Cold War, branding Russia and China’s relationship the “new East.” In an interview, Lavrov said Russia was turning away from the West in response to sanctions from developed countries. “We are working with the East,” Lavrov told Russia’s NTV in St. Petersburg. “Like we used to…

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UK Peers Propose Law Limiting Public Bodies’ Dependency on Chinese and Russian Imports

June 22, 2022
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A cross-party group of peers has proposed a new law aimed at containing the dependency on Chinese imports in the British public bodies’ supply chain. It comes after the government quietly dropped “Project Defend,” a cross-department project put together during the early days of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic to assess the UK’s supply chain…

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Nuclear Weapons Imbalance Creates ‘Dangerous Moment’: Former CIA Officer

June 21, 2022
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A former CIA officer and expert on nuclear weapons has criticised successive American and British leaders, including President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for believing the mantra “nuclear wars can never be won and should never be fought” and allowing Russia and China to build up a massive strategic advantage over the West. Peter…

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Wimbledon Urged to Cut Ties With HSBC Over Its Support of Hong Kong’s National Security Law

June 21, 2022
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Wimbledon has come under pressure to drop HSBC as a sponsor over the bank’s support of the national security law in Hong Kong. In a letter to the tennis championship’s Chief Executive Sally Bolton, lawmakers from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hong Kong asked Bolton to reconsider Wimbledon’s involvement with HSBC, which they said had “repeatedly…

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Putin–Xi Call: Kremlin Claims Xi Endorses Putin’s Invasion; US Innovation Race Losing to China

June 16, 2022
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Russian President Vladimir Putin calls Chinese leader Xi Jinping on his birthday. But the call might be a good thing for the Chinese leader. Now people are having their suspicion confirmed: China and Russia are in it together. But I think there is a more subtle reason why Putin called Xi Jinping.  I got the…

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Using Chinese Surveillance Companies Akin to Handling ‘Digital Asbestos,’ UK Government Adviser Warns

June 16, 2022
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Allowing Chinese surveillance companies to operate in the UK is akin to installing “digital asbestos” that puts civil liberties at risk, warned the government’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Fraser Sampson, who is reviewing the country’s human rights and security issues. Sampson said on Tuesday that allowing China’s controversial CCTV makers and operators Hikvision and Dahua to…

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